The SNP's Baby Box is childish, but Scottish Labour's lack of an agenda to stand for anything is even more infantile

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon listens to the new Makar (National Poet for Scotland) Jackie Kay reading a poem at the Scottish Poetry Library in EdinburghCredit:
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There was much mirth, outrage, approval, anger and despondency in the tiny, claustrophobic arena that is Scottish politics this last week.

The catalyst for this entirely familiar and typical state of affairs was the roll-out by the SNP-run Scottish Government of the “Baby Box” which, despite its name, is not a cardboard box containing an infant but, rather, a cardboard box delivered to the family of every newborn Scottish citizen containing a supply of necessities that will no doubt come in handy for the new parents: nappies, Rusks, jars of that delicious but anonymous pureed meat-based paste.

It sounds like a good idea, at least in PR terms, which is the main point of it. But aside from the dubious...